Baltimore police investigate four shootings, one downtown

Kevin Rector, Mary Gail Hare and Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun

Two girls and a man were shot in the 2200 block ofAnnapolis Avenue in the Westport neighborhood shortly before 6 p.m. Monday — adding a triple shooting to three other shootings police were investigating since Sunday night.

The two girls had "graze wounds" from bullets, while the man was shot in the back, police said.

Few other details were immediately available about the shooting, but police said all injuries were non-life-threatening.

A man who walked into Maryland Shock Trauma Center with a gunshot wound to his left arm told police he was shot after being robbed of jewelry, a watch and an iPad as he walked out of an eatery early Monday in downtown Baltimore.

The victim had been at the Upper Deck Bar & Grill about 3 a.m. getting food when police said he was attacked on South Eutaw and West Baltimore streets while walking to his car, near the Hippodrome theater and one block from 1st Mariner Arena.

Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman, said the gunman and an accomplice surprised the victim by emerging from an alley. "Kick it out," police said one man uttered, using slang for a robbery demand. When it was over, police said, one man turned to the other and told him to shoot the victim.

Authorities described the gunman as a heavyset black male with a medium complexion standing about 5 feet 11 and weighing 240 to 260 pounds. He had thick facial hair and a beard.

Sunday night, in a separate shooting, police said, a 21-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his right pelvis sought treatment at Sinai Hospital. Police have determined the shooting occurred about 10:15 p.m. in the 5400 block of Crismer Avenue in the Woodmere neighborhood.

Hospital staff alerted police after the man arrived at Sinai in the 2400 block of W. Belvedere Avenue. The victim told police that he had been walking on Crismer Avenue when he was approached by a black sedan. A passenger in the back seat rolled down the window and fired a handgun several times at the victim, who was shot once but was able to run from the scene. A family member took the victim to the hospital.

At 12:02 a.m., a 17-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 2400 block of Bridgehampton Drive, an apartment complex in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood, near McClean Boulevard and Northern Parkway, police said. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment and later released.